This thread gave vent to memories of an article I wrote in 1971 for an in
house (Catholic college) publication, contrasting a narrow education in the
"humanities" with a science based education (anti technology sentiment was
rampant at this time):
" . . . The polarization is already far advanced. While the theologians
continue to write about each other, the scientists - heeding St. Paul's
injunction - explore the mind of God 'through the things he has made'.
While the historians continue to indulge their primitive obsession with
politics and wars, the student of science studies what is eminently human
history - the evolution of scientific thought. While philosophers . . . "
( On and on, provoking from the pews a grand AMEN! )